No, it is not. Most teams have both. Its like saying its a waste to pay a coach and an assistant coach. Whatever is needed for a technical bench is what you go for. Each team can have a different setup. If a team feels all they need is head coach and not an assistant, then so be it. It will show in their performance eventually. There is an akan proverb: A lot of fish/meat in a soup is not a mess. Adequate help is better than a deficient one.

$25000 a month is peanut if you consider AA’s job market.However it is a lot of more in the sense of Ghana. Top chief executive don’t earn that money a month.The real fact is that AA is not a calibre of The Ghana Black Star coach.Even if he render his service free,it’s a no no.The question of one of our own is a silly argument.We need a competent coach to take us forward.Black,green,yellow etc doesn’t matter.competency and after two years ,AA has shown nothing but cluelessness.

I think given him another chance is the right way to go. I think he has learnt a lot with this world cup slumber and the benifit of the daught is that he has the chance once more to get his act together

I understand most of Ghanaian fans want Appiah to be fired after a big failure in Brazil, but ladies and gentlemen not so fast please. I’m disappointed as well, but let’s look deep down to the giant failure in Brazil before making any decision. There are CAUSES and EFFECTS in every failure and I think this time majority of us are looking at the EFFECTS at this moment, whereas the CAUSE is actually to be blamed. The root of the failure in Brazil was caused by GFA financial department and not the coach alone. There’s someone who should’ve sent the player pay cheques or direct deposits on time; just that could’ve gotten rid of players “boy-cott” in practices and some of them losing their minds. What can a coach do about such reactions? The coach also did some things wrong, but it’s the subsequences of the players not getting paid on time, which led to that scenario. How come not even one official in their finacial sector is being looked at? Why isn’t anyone

We are not putting all the blame on the coach. The fans have called for both the coach and GFA president to step down. This article is about the coach that is why he alone is being talked about here.

The mistakes of the coach goes as far back as AFCON 13. His failures are too heavy to keep him as head coach even if you turn a blind eye to the other issues the BS had in Brazil. I for one have looked at the issues very well enough to know that Appiah must go. We can fix all the other issues and KA will still not be able to win AFCON 15. These Serbian coaches that came did well in two yrs while they were with the team. Appiah was assistant for about 6yrs and head coach for about two and still cant do better than these serbians. He knows the GFA and the players inside out and still couldnt do what a stranger did in less of the time he has had with the team. Please, he has to go.

We can all have our different takes on Appiah. I can respect that. I personally think we need to see what happens at AFCON 2015 before getting to high or low on the issue. If the team does not win AFCON 2015 then wholesale changes have to be made. With this short amount of time left before AFCON 2015 it does not make sense to make any drastic moves unless you are going to bring one of the top five coaches in the World who will come to Ghana and select the best Ghanaian players on the planet and have them come and camp in Ghana and train in Ghana early and often. The reality is that there just is not money and time for that so it is important to work with Appiah and give him the best support possible so that there is cohesion on the team. Let us remember that the European coaches have flopped as well. Remember Leroy in 2008 with the infamous Essien as a center back in the semi-final. At AFCON 2010 and WC 2010 we were a “one goal project”. We were fortunate but we cannot really say that we tactically dominated anyone. At AFCON 2012 our Serbian coach could not get us to beat Zambia or even salvage the third place game. I think many Ghanaians forget that the 2010 year was actually not the smoothest in the world. I would say that Asamoah Gyan saved us with spectacular goals here and there but we were not tactically dominant. The truth hurts but it must be told.

Cont: Yes the coach didn’t start some of the best players against U.S, but still look at the roster and tell me why those guys couldn’t beat that awful U.S team? The players are also part of the failure and some of them [ players] DIDNITY should be questioned as well. SIMPLY, the fans shouldn’t put all the blame on the coach.

EA1us, I’ve echoed similar statements in previous postings. Blame has to go around from top to bottom. If a team wants to be great they have to look at everything from top to bottom. From the FA to the team cook. It doesn’t matter. Not all the blame should go on the coach…it’s simply ridiculous to over look the faults of the FA, the players, and not just the Coach. Everyone involved in the Blackstars needs to get better!

I am not going to be proud of people simply because he or she is black, white or indigo. I’m only proud of people who are doing things that are good and advancing societies and countries. This mentality is what is messing Africa up. Even those a person might be killing us, wasting our money (something we really dont have much of) and failing miserably at his\her, people will say – let support him\her because he\she is our own. BS. I only support good people. I will never support my own kid if he is failing at running my family business. I will hire someone else who can help the family business grow so that my son and I can continue to make money and leave some for our kids. That how anything should be done. Hire people on their merits not on their skin color/relationship. It will be nice to find a family member or a friend etc who is qualified to do a job but thats usually rare to come by. And Ghana has done just the opposite of that – we hired a guy just because he is one of us. He has shown us how awful he is at coaching and yet we are saying – We should be proud of our own. gosh!! Nepotisim is what is killing Africa. Whats wrong with us?!!!